Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

Money is coined liberty.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.